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Thompson, Kalee.
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Alaska Ranger (Trawler)
United States. Coast Guard -- Search and rescue operations -- Bering Sea.
Shipwrecks -- Bering Sea.
Search and rescue operations -- Bering Sea.
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Thompson, Kalee.
Alaska Ranger (Trawler)
United States. Coast Guard -- Search and rescue operations -- Bering Sea.
Shipwrecks -- Bering Sea.
Search and rescue operations -- Bering Sea.
MARC Display
Deadliest
sea
: the untold story behind the greatest
rescue
in Coast Guard history / Kalee Thompson.
by
Thompson, Kalee.
William Morrow, c2010.
Call #:
910.45 T4731d
Subjects
Alaska Ranger (Trawler)
United States. Coast Guard
--
Search
and
rescue
operations
--
Bering
Sea
.
Shipwrecks
--
Bering
Sea
.
Search
and
rescue
operations
--
Bering
Sea
.
ISBN:
9780061766299
0061766291
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
309 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
The Alaska Ranger
--
"Go to the suits!"
--
Always ready
--
Best speed
--
"Abandon ship!"
--
The observers
--
Alone in the waves
--
Swimmer in the water
--
Sick at
sea
--
Man down
--
Out of the cold
--
Death at the extremes
--
The final
search
--
The investigation.
Summary:
Soon after 2:00 A.M. on Easter morning, March 23, 2008, the fishing trawler Alaska Ranger began taking on water in the frigid
Bering
Sea
. While the first mate broadcast Mayday calls to a Coast Guard station more than 800 miles away, the men scrambled to inflate life rafts. By 4:30, the wheelhouse was just barely visible, and most of the 47 crew were in the water, wearing the red survival suits--many torn or inadequately sized--that were supposed to keep them from freezing to death. Two Coast Guard helicopter
rescue
teams battled snow squalls, enormous swells, and gale-force winds. Before dawn, the Coast Guard had lifted more than twenty men from the freezing waves--more than any other cold-water Coast Guard
rescue
in history. This book recounts the harrowing stories of both the rescuers and the rescued, and investigates the negligence that leads to the sinking of dozens of ships each year.
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